Here’s an estimated trajectory model for the meteor spotted in the northeast earlier tonight. This model is calculated by computing the intersection points of each witness with all other witnesses. These points are then averaged for the starting and ending points of the meteor. Click map below to view event sightings page.

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Well everyone, I live in Fleming Island, Florida and I am about 20 miles southwest of Jacksonville. Last night at just about 8pm I was entering my neighborhood and I saw a big orange ball in the sky moving slowly across the sky that got brighter and brighter, then it started to dim and I watched it for about 5 minutes until it disappeared. I don’t know if it was the same thing that everyone else saw, but it wasn’t an airplane. There weren’t any red or green lights as it increased in intensity.

Hi..I live in Manteca Cailifonia.. At around. 2100 last night March 23rd Western time.. I went out in my backyard.. I looked up in the sky and seen the samething. Three very bright orange slow moving objects… the first set lasted about a minute then slowly. Faded out…then two more sets of three..lasting around the same time.. It diffently was not planes…their happened to be a plane in the sky at the same time… Weirdest thing I’ve ever seen.. I was able to take pics..I’m hoping they came out.

I live on Long Island and while I was taking a walk last night I suddenly heard this whooshing sound while seeing a bright aqua colored light in the sky. In the next instant I saw this meteor shooting to the south.

It was very low in the sky and I could actually hear this object as it passed overhead… Very strange to say the least..

I was walking my dog at dusk, when suddenly the area lit up like someone had flashed a giant strobe light. I looked straight up in the sky and briefly saw the streaking meteor moving from west to east. It was gone in a second. The time was approximately 7:54PM EDT. I an located in Franklin Park, NJ.

Mike you need to move your trajectory a bit south. Saw it in West Grove PA. Not sure if it was the same or if it was a split off from the meteor in NY. But a stadium full of people saw it during the high school lacrosse game.

Saw it around 7:50 PM driving south on Interstate 91 a few miles before the exit to interstate 90 in Mass. The duration was several seconds – very unusual. It streaked horizontally from west to east. Thought it was a plane landing. It started out white the glowed green with pieces falling off that appeared white or golden. I haven’t seen a fireball like this in decades.

I live in NE Maryland. I also saw a white fireball high in the sky traveling west to east that broke up into pieces that turned green, yellow and red before. I thought at first it was a military cargo plane with its headlights on which is a common site but it was traveling to fast for a plan but seemingly slow as well for a meteor. I realised it was a meteor/fireball when it disintegrated into colorful pieces.

I saw a flash in the western sky then the object flashed again as it was travelling NW at about 320 degrees. It was about 11:20 pm on MAY 4th, I can’t believe that no one else saw it. I thought maybe it was space junk but it flashed twice….if anyone else saw it please pst,thanks

My wife and I were driving east on rt 155 toward Havre de grace, ,MD when I saw what appeared to be a horizontal streak of light traveling what seemed to be twice as fast as the car west toto eastdrive with slightyou decent and lasted about 10 seconds around 7:48 pm. Caught my eye .

Around 7:55-8:00pm my boyfriend pointed it out and thought it was a shooting star. It was much bigger and closer to earth than a shooting star would be. It was very big and a green color with some gold in it. It lasted a few seconds before it disappeared. We spotted it In south jersey right outside of mays landing.

I was driving towards north in Philly when I saw it go west to east around 7:45. At first I thought a plane was going really fast and flying very low. But it looked like a large ball of fire with a range of hues. I remember blue was more pronounced.

There was one on the East Coast back during the week when that one hit Russia. The problem was that it was so overcast that no one saw it except me (that I know of) – I got lucky and it shined through thin cloud cover just as I looked up.

I KNEW IT!!! Most Scariest THING I EVER SEEN!!! I was walking in A Open Parking Lot When I seen something fallinG from the sky with smoke trails then it burst!!! All I could Think about was This Looks like the thing from Russia!! When It Burst I Ducked Waiting for The BANG but There wasnt any!!! I was In SHOCK for the next 30 Mins!! People at the store asked me if I was ok but when I told them They looked at me like I was crazy!!! (maybe thats because I was at a liqour store)But at 7:57pm I Posted On FB that I swear I seen something Just fall from the sky!!! I KNEW IT!!!

Around 8 pm last night the 22nd I was sitting in my family room next to all glass across the back of my house. I was on the phone when I saw the really bright ball coming across sky. I actually had to interrupt the person I was talking to because it was so cool to see. It was low and fast and it was gone quickly. Wish I had a movie of it. I live in Chadds Ford, Pa

I was pulling up the driveway in Monroe, NY and saw it go from West to East almost like fireworks, first thought a shooting star, which I’ve seen too, but it was to bright, big and low in the sky, and shooting stars are as quick as a blink! Quite fascinated when Janice Huff from News Channel 4 New York @ 11 said oh yes it was a meteor!!

I saw the meteor/ fireball also at approximately 8 pm breaking apart in multiple pieces moving Northwest to East. I did not see any coloration other than bright white. It looked like sparklers on the 4th of July as it seemed very close to Earth. I was in Riverdale NYC as a reference.

Spotted the metor from North East Maryland 21901. At first since it was so green I thought it was a military plane. The green light looks like the green navigation light on the aircraft. We watched it for about 5 sec.

While in a meeting a little before 8pm my business partner and I saw this bright streak if light race across the sky. I looked at each other in amazement and ask did we see that. It was very bright with an orange colorful streak in a downward angle. And this was in the Riverdale area of the Bronx NY. Amazing

I saw it at that time as well, I was in Monmouth County camping about two miles south of Englishtown. It appeared to be right over our heads. The ground around us lit up, and I almost thought someone was shooting a roman candle firework over our head. Reminded me of the Perseid Showers several years ago. It brightened up, and then died out as it broke up, heading in the general direction you have identified. It ran a whole gamut of colors.

My son and I were driving on I-95 south, about 20 minutes south of Portland, Maine, when we saw the same thing that knowitall described. What seemed so unusual was how straight the trajectory appeared , the change in color (white to green) and the breaking into particles as it disappeared. Very exciting to see.

I was about 10 miles north of you Hodding on I-95, just outside Portland. Your description matches very well with what I saw. It appeared to have a very level path – and at first I thought it was a plane circling out over Casco Bay to make its final approach at the Portland Jetport. Then it turned green and broke up! I realized it was a fireball, but still imagined it was fairly close – perhaps over southern Maine. Quite amazed to learn it was somewhere over NJ/NY when I was watching it.

We saw it just before 8pm in Lititz, PA. First the kids spotted it then my husband and I saw it. Amazingly bright and seemed so close or was just rather large. Then again, I am not trained in such, but it was unlike any meteor shower I’ve ever watched.

My family observed this streak across the night sky which was white, yellow, greenish with a long blue tail. We were driving in the area of Pennsville, NJ, exit 1 off of Route 295, around 7:50pm. It happened so quickly we were unable to take a picture.

We saw the fireball at the barn while feeding our horses last night around 8:00 p.m. in Jefferson, Maryland. We thought at first it was a shooting star since they are seen sometimes in that part of the sky until we saw the color and the size.

thought so! Was driving on pa turnpike east from warminster area to nj at 7:45-8:20pm. ..did not check specific time but saw a quick streak out of normaly airline trajectories as initially the off color attracted my peripheral vision enough for me to look..but it had turned off white to whitethat quickly! Glad I know now it was a larger sighting!

Saratoga County in upstate NY at around 745 PM March 22, 2013: Saw a bright green fireball moving very fast horizontally through the sky on a southeast trajectory. It broke apart, scattered bright green pieces then fizzled out. The tail was red. Meteorite???

I saw it out my front window while watching TV – my 12 year old saw it as well – thought I was losing my mind – till I saw the news – looked like the size of a football – glowing bright neon green/yellow … what an absolutely amazing sight!! So glad I got to see it … even made a wish on the off chance that it might’ve been a shooting star … cant hurt, right?

At about 7:50 pm, March 22, I saw a bright white light over the NIH in Bethesda, MD. AT first I thought it might be a helicopter, but then realized it had a long white tail, and was glowing a greenish, blue color. I was with my dog in an open field and was able to watch it for awhile until it burned out or disappeared. It was about the size of a large grapefruit.

About 7:50, driving North on Rt. 895, Harbour Tunnel Thruway, in Baltimore, saw a bright green fireball streak low in the sky – I was on the bridge above Baltimore – it was going west to east. I thought it was a flare or weapon.

I came out of a jazz concert in Holyoke, Mass somewhere between 9:30 and 10:00 on 3/22. Looked up at the clear night sky, facing south and saw something very bright and moving very fast from east to west that quickly disappeared and ended in a beautiful trail/tail of light. had to have been a meteor. what else?

I saw it last night as well. I was in Adams Mass about 755pm. It was very bright and green. I think a piece of it broke off over the town. A small piece broke off and fizzled out right overhead. It mad a boom sound as well. I feel luck to have observed it. Ill go play Powerball tonight!!!

still thinking about it this morning. so glad i was driving in the right direction at the right time and it was right in front of my face. i am in southwestern CT and now that i see how far south people saw it, it makes me realize just how HUGE it was. saw the white fireball and tail streak across and then it burned out…it was traveling horizontally from west to east and it was bright and colorful and spectacular. i love this stuff <3

Waldwick, NJ – My 4 year old daughter and I were putting the trash out sometime near 8pm. It’s a fairly dark street at night so it lit the driveway up with a blue / green burst. I initially thought it was a firework as it was quiet colorful but soon realized it was a large shooting star. Very lucky to see it!

I saw this last night around 8pm right after getting out of the rock climbing gym in Manassas, VA. It started out looking like a whitish/golden firework, crossed the entire sky and turned green as it crossed farther east. It was visible long enough for me to take notice, tell my climbing partner to look up, and for her to stop what she was doing and see it.
Really glad I not only saw this, but also that I follow an astronomy enthusiast on Instagram who referred us to this page.

my 15 year old called me about 800 pm on march 22 2013. He told me he was out side with his friend and he saw a white glowing ball looking thing going threw the sky and he said it look like it explosed and he saw flames coming out of it and then it was gone. This was seen in Jessup Maryland.

I saw this last night around 8 pm when I was walking my Siberian in an open field in Phoenixville, Pa.[Near Valley Forge]. It was AMAZING!! Very bright and traveling parallel to the Earth from the North to the South East. I never saw anything like it,,much different than any shooting star or meteor shower I have seen! It appeared to be at a low altitude. I am so glad I saw it,,,,,,,just wished it lasted longer than 6 or 7 seconds!!

Spotted the meteor as a green light coming from the South-South East heading in a Westerly direction from Winthrop MASS, across the harbor from Logan Airport. It was on a steep downward trajectory faster than anything I had every seen in the sky. Being so close to the airport, and the trajectory, I thought a plane was heading directly into the water. I saw this light for 7 seconds.

My daughter and I were taking a walk in our neighborhood in Doylestown, Pa just before 8:00 pm and saw what I initially thought was a firework in the sky. It was a bright, white ball with a long tail and moving very fast. It disappeared after a few seconds. I had never seen a shooting star before last night
, and neither has my daughter, who is 9 years old. It was amazing, and we were thrilled that we were outside to see it.

saw a bright streaking fireball with bright white at the front similar to airplane lights with streaks of green and blue following behind it…. was in downtown Waynesboro PA,,, it was amazing to watch… it seem went down somewhere close to Waynesboro. Wish i could have seen it on the ground as well !

Looking northeast from Powells Fort Valley, I thought I was seeing a plane crash onto the east-facing slope of Massanutten Mountain (the other side of the mountain from me). I didn’t think it was a meteor because it was moving so slowly, just above the tops of the trees on the mountain.

A co-worker and I were standing outside our office about 9:50pm when we saw what appeared to be a small piece of debris burn up over the office. It was bright and changed colors before it burned up completely.
Elmsford, ny

I stepped out onto my front porch and looked up just as the first bright midstream flash occurred. Since the color was greenish, I thought it might be fireworks at first. Actually had time to figure out that it wasn’t. I assumed from the color that it was some sort of space trash coming back into the atmosphere, as I have only really seen silver and gold versions of the phenomenon. Have they established whether it was natural or man made yet?

My husband and I saw it on our way home last night around 8p.m. It was an amazing sight, beautiful ball of light with a streak of tail light. It passed so quickly I didn’t have a chance to take a picture. We are from York, PA.

Researched something on a hunch; the 2x solar panel covers from the recent launch of Dragon on the CRS2 mission are still in orbit and were in the vicinity of the US Northeast last night around 20:15 EDT. The direction of travel would have been SW-to-NE for reentry, however, but the timing and size of the objects were about right. Calculated this with updated Space_track TLEs and Orbitron.

Were there any reports of flashes experienced earlier in day – mid afternoon? Witnessed bright flash but dismissed it as seeing things. After confirmed evening activity am curious if anyone else saw something as well.

Saw meteor around 7:55 pm in Vienna, VA. Resembled roman candle firework/fireball streaming across sky and toward ground. Could clearly see blue-green fireball disintegrate into a trail of yellow sparks.

Saw a bright surge of light looked up to see it streaking across our second floor window in the great room. I looked to the right upper window to see it streak across but it was lower. It caught my son’s attention and he turned to look out back. He said it must have been a transformer exploding. As I took him to a birthday party and drove in the direction I saw it I was curious to see if any houses were without electricity. All was fine. A woman was on her porch looking out over the fields and I looked across and saw a bright blue flamelike brightness way off in the distance in a field (ground level). Couldn’t figure out what it was and my son wanted to go on to his social event and there were no accessible roads to go in that direction so I just drove around to see if there was any emergency activity in the area . Nothing thought it was my imagination and woke up to find the buzz on the sighting!

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I was traveling on Rt. 32E just past Rt175 exit. The road turns north at that point. Just before the road turns east toward Rt 170 exit, I saw it come from the West. A white, blue, green meteor traveling slowly across the sky with a long tail/trail. It lasted a good 10 seconds and seemed to be close like only a 1/4 to 1/2 ,mile away. It seemed to be mostly blue and green. It did burn white at times, and it went to the East. I could sware it seemed like it was right neer us and not up toward NJ. It was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. I tlooked like if it was any closer it would hit us. As it travled east, it looked like pieces broke off and it burned out.

Around 8 PM as I was driving home last night (Long Island, NY) I saw a bright light in the sky. At first I thought it was a plane but once I got a good look at it I realized it wasn’t. It had a bright white light with a bright green tail streaming very quickly across the sky. Suddenly it just disappeared.

I live in Texas and last night around 8-8:30 I saw something that looked like it hit the ground and then turned a bright neon blue/green light then it went out. I thought it was a transformer or something but it seemd to have been to big and bright for that.

I was sitting on my sofa and saw it out the picture window in Smyrna, DE – it was a bright white fireball with an orange glowing trail. The COOLEST thing I’ve ever seen! I started yelling for my husband to look which panicked him as he thought a plane was crashing or something. By the time we ran outside it was gone – maybe 2-5 seconds. It was so fast that my husband only saw the tail end of the trail as it disappeared out of site. It looked like it was only 500 feet up, although that is not the case.

My son saw it last night around 7:40 p.m. he said it was green and I thought he was exaggerating a little, now I know he wasn’t. I wish I could have seen it too. We live in rural N.C. so it was bright.

Saw this last evening over Moultonborough NH, I viewed a large greenish object flying through the sky and had no idea what it was. Phoned our local police to see if anyone else had reported something, and no one had….it seemed I was the first. Then I read all the reports. It was astonishing!

Saw this last night as well. As silly as it may sound, it reminded me of green fireworks being shot up. Only it was just one and there was no loud boom. Thought I was seeing things at the time. Nice to know you all saw it too!

Saw the fireball from my backyard in upstate NY (just west of Albany). I wasn’t sure what it was at first, as it was too low in the sky and too bright to be a shooting star. It looked more like a single firework rocket with bright greenish-white tail and dramatic burst at the end. Also had a bright, smaller burst in the center of the tail. The whole thing lasted just a couple seconds.

Because it was so low in the shy, I thought it was closer to my location — very surprised to find out that projected actual path was over NJ.

Best meteroite I have seen in over 40 years! Moving horizontally NW to SE rather low in the sky about 15-20 degrees above horizon. It appeared blue to me like a fireworks display. I saw it for about 1-2 seconds then it appeared to explode at the end with pieces shooting off as from a fountain. I was looking for comet PANSTARRS at the time. (I never saw the comet).
This was in Cranston, RI. March 22, 2013 about 7:54PM EDT.

Witnessed it last night a little before 8 in Holyoke Ma—Walking out of the Barnes and Noble. At first thougt it was some kind of plane—however, no noise—quick bright flash of light—white/orange then greenish glow–then it was gone. Seemed low on the horizon. All very quick, but definitely something out of the ordinary~

I just saw a shooting star fly over my house! There was a flash of light and I looked up and saw a streak of light leaving a red trail sail over my backyard at about 1000 feet altitude. it came in from the northwest and flew southwest towards the ocean. It made no sound. This is the first I’ve ever sighted over Rumson, NJ.

I live in Atlantic County, NJ. close to Mays Landing and went outside to call my cat and to my left I saw flashing lights. I looked to my left and it was streaking throught some clouds and clear sky. With a tail that was not solid but dropping fireballs. I saw it for about 7 or 8 seconds until it just burnt out. Awesome! Just wish I had my camara!

Most folks reported the initital “fireball” at around 8PM EDT. I was left my office in Chantilly, VA at about 8:25 EDT last night. At about 8:45-8:50 EDT I saw what was appeared to be a meteor trail in front of me (I was travelling due East on The Dulles Toll Road at that time) that was approximately 50 degrees up from the eastern horizon. The trail was hot white. It’s imprint apepared to cover about 5-10 degrees of the sky before it rapidly disipated. No other “celestial” objects were observed during the remainder of my commute home.

To AMSADMIN – With over 500 sightings, I doubt this little correction to my report will matter. But, when I saw the fireball from Maine it was moving right-to-left – not left-to-right as I reported. Just a bit of a brain-freeze when I filled out the report form.

I live in Hughesville, Maryland and saw the meteor around 8:00 PM last night. I was getting ready to walk my dog and caught it going across the sky. It had a tail and presented an awesome sight; I was transfixed by it. I watched it till the lights/fire went out, which was around 3-4 seconds. I mind went to the Russian incident, and I immediately thought of the nearby Calvert Clifts Nuclear Power Plant. I have seen shooting stars / meteors before, but this was the longest in duration.

I saw a glowing yellow orange spherical shaped object with a tail streaking across the sky last night sometime after 7:00 PM in Stamford CT. It appeared to be on fire or definitely glowing like a Roman Candle with a very straight trajectory. It traveled for a quarter mile or so after my initial sighting than just fizzled out and it did not appear to be that high in the sky. I thought maybe someone was shooting off fire works of some sort but it was to high and flying to parallel with the ground to be fireworks.

I was driving east from Upperville, VA to Middleburg, VA on Rt. 50, at a little before 8 pm. I saw a beautiful greenish light with a tail going downward at an angle that is common for planes to fly into Dulles (and on what appeared to be a standard airplane flight path). So I thought it was an airplane in trouble or something. It wasn’t going much faster than an airplane from that distance. But the light appeared larger than what would have been that of an airplane unless on fire. The the light went dark. I expected to see a crash site on the news. Obviously I was wrong with my guesses. Finally, my guess was that I had seen a meteor or small asteroid falling. It was much bigger and and much slower than other “shooting stars” I have seen.

i saw a piece of the meteor it was small,white and had a gold looking trail behind it i thought it was a shooting star but it was too low for that and it looked funny but im in bronx ny igt was around 8pm-830pm last nightit was cool

My fiance and I observed this streak across the night sky which was white, yellow, greenish with a long blue tail. We were sitting in our backyard, around 7:50pm. It was so amazing, seemed like it moved fairly slowly but we were unable to take a picture.

YES GUYS I saw this most amazing, beautiful red-orange-blue-then white light running across the night sky about 8′ oclock EST in Long Island New York, It was so wonderfullly to witness and has been making me feel so happy.

I didn’t see the fireball, but is there any reports of hearing a loud noise from this meteor? I live in Hillside, NJ (Union County) and everyone at home heard a noise originating from outside about the time this occurred. I thought maybe it was a car accident down the street at first but there wasn’t one, but now that I saw the news on the fireball, could it be a sonic boom caused by the meteor?

Tweed, Ontario, canada
We were driving home after getting something to eat when right in front of us there was a big ball of blue, green light, we even saw the flare up it had half way before it disappeared……..awesome sight!!!!!! It looked like someone was shooting off a firework but backwards.

I saw this meteor around 1am saturday morning in South Range, Wisconsin. It was bright green and went zooming across the sky and then disappeared behind the trees. It was awesome to see, especially since I’ve never saw one before, and thought I was seeing things!!

I had just dropped off my son at a weekend camping retreat and was headed to a remote parking area alone, the last parent to leave. I heard this woosh and right in front of me I saw a bright white streak in a beautiful arc with a reddish tail and couldn’t believe my eyes (or ears)! I had been quietly talking to God about my special needs son and this sighting was both astonishing and comforting at the same time! The sky is His very own handiwork, truly amazing and I’ll never forget the experience! near Valley Forge, PA

We didn’t see the fireball (I’m jealous!), but today we heard at exactly 3:49 pm ET in WV a spray of objects that sounded like dust and marbles tossed on our roof: my husband and I were in different adjoining rooms and both heard it! After accusing each other then the neighbors (all innocent) of pulling a prank, we rigged a magnet to some rope and dragged the gutters for micrometeorites, and found a collection of 3 grams’ worth of micrometeorite material in the gutter beneath! Our gutters and tiles are nonmagnetic, BTW.

I was on Pennsylania Avenue going towards District Heights, Md. I saw something in the sky which I thought was a falling plane or something on fire. As it got closer, the shape of it began to change and then I could tell it was a meteor. A big ball of fire came down right in front of me, and then, it was gone. I am still trying to get over it.

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Saw it in waldorf md around 8pm while i was driving…truly amazing sight,thought it was a firework at first.But i soon realized it wasnt,it had a different hues of color,and long blue trail.Happy i got to witness it

I live in the little town of Jacobus PA 5 miles south of York PA. I was hanging wash out on the clothes line just before 8 PM when I looked up and saw a fireball with a green tail traveling west to east. It only was visible for about 15 seconds or so.

I looked to the north to see a slower and bigger than the normal shooting star,with a long tail. “Beautiful” is all I could say aloud. It was traveling in a slight southeast direction at 12:41 am eastern time. This just lets me know that I really do live in God’s country; Townville, SC

I witnessed a bright green “shooting star” with a long tail, it seemed to move fairly slowly and was quite “low”. I at first thought it was a firework?….bottle rocket …out of the corner of my eye, due to the color….but, well now I Know! It was beautiful! I live in East Greenville, PA …60 miles NW of Philadelphia.

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